Paleokarst

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Philip W. Choquette, Noel P. James

      Pages 1-21

3. General Karst Features and Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Characteristics of Dissolutional Cave Systems in Carbonate Rocks

      • Derek Ford

      Pages 25-57

   3. Geochemical Patterns of Meteoric Diagenetic Systems and Their Application to Studies of Paleokarst

      • Kyger C Lohmann

      Pages 58-80

   4. Controls on Mineralogy and Composition of Spelean Carbonates: Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

      • Luis A. Gonzalez, Kyger C Lohmann

      Pages 81-101

   5. Breccia-Hosted Lead—Zinc Deposits in Carbonate Rocks

      • Donald F. Sangster

      Pages 102-116

   6. Blackened Limestone Pebbles: Fire at Subaerial Unconformities

      • Eugene A. Shinn, Barbara H. Lidz

      Pages 117-131

   7. Holocene Overprints of Pleistocene Paleokarst: Bight of Abaco, Bahamas

      • Kenneth A. Rasmussen, A. Conrad Neumann

      Pages 132-148

   8. Neptunian Dikes and Fissure Fills: An Overview and

      • Peter L. Smart, R. J. Palmer, F. Whitaker, V. Paul Wright

      Pages 149-162

4. Examples of Paleokarst Terranes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Proterozoic Paleokarst Profile, Dismal Lakes Group, N.W.T., Canada1

      • Charles Kerans, J. Alan Donaldson

      Pages 167-182

   3. Early Paleozoic Surface and Subsurface Paleokarst: Middle Ordovician Carbonates, Mingan Islands, Québec

      • André Desrochers, Noel P. James

      Pages 183-210

   4. Ordovician Knox Paleokarst Unconformity, Appalachians

      • William J. Mussman, Isabel P. Montanez, J. Fred Read

      Pages 211-228

   5. Surface and Subsurface Paleokarst, Silurian Lockport, and Peebles Dolomites, Western Ohio

      • Charles F. Kahle

      Pages 229-255

   6. Madison Limestone (Mississippian) Paleokarst: A Geologic Synthesis

      • William J. Sando

      Pages 256-277

   7. Late Mississippian Paleokarst and Related Mineral Deposits, Leadville Formation, Central Colorado

      • Richard H. De Votto

      Pages 278-305

   8. Paleokarstic Features in Mississippian Limestones, New Mexico

      • William J. Meyers

      Pages 306-328

   9. Paleokarsts and Paleosols as Indicators of Paleoclimate and Porosity Evolution: A Case Study from the Carboniferous of South Wales

      • V. Paul Wright

      Pages 329-341

   10. Caves and Other Features of Permian Karst in San Andres Dolomite, Yates Field Reservoir, West Texas

       • Dexter H. Craig

       Pages 342-363

Landscapes of the past have always held an inherent fascination for ge­ ologists because, like terrestrial sediments, they formed in our environment, not offshore on the sea floor and not deep in the subsurface. So, a walk across an ancient karst surface is truly a step back in time on a surface formed open to the air, long before humans populated the globe. Ancient karst, with its associated subterranean features, is also of great scientific interest because it not only records past exposure of parts of the earth's crust, but preserves information about ancient climate and the movement of waters in paleoaquifers. Because some paleokarst terranes are locally hosts for hydrocarbons and base metals in amounts large enough to be economic, buried and exhumed paleokarst is also of inordinate practical importance. This volume had its origins in a symposium entitled "Paleokarst Systems and Unconformities-Characteristics and Significance," which was orga­ nized and convened by us at the 1985 midyear meeting of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The symposium had its roots in our studies over the last decade, both separately and jointly, of a number of major and minor unconformities and of the diverse, and often spectacular paleokarst features associated with these unconformities.

• Breccia
• Cambrian
• Dolomite
• Jura
• Sediment
• Sedimentation
• diagenesis
• mineral
• mineral deposits
• mineralogy
• research
• stratigraphy

• Department of Geological Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  Noel P. James

• Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  Philip W. Choquette

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